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Coinage/Invention

Coinage/Invention

The invention of a totally new term is called coinage. The most typical sources are invented trade names for commercial products that become general terms.
Examples:
aspirin
nylon
xerox

Other sources include name of a person or a place. They are the eponyms or antonomasia.
Examples:
sandwich (from the 18th century Earl of Sandwich who first insisted on having bread and meat together while gambling)
hoover (from the Hoover Suction Sweeper Company which produced the first vacuum cleaner)

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